- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages. - Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. - Bernard Williams
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 - June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. He was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge for over a decade, and Provost of King's College, Cambridge for almost as long, before becoming Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. - Vaughan Lowe
Alan Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999. Member of the English Bar. Associé de l'Institut de droit international. He formerly taught at the universities of Cambridge, where he was Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Manchester, and Cardiff. His writings include "The Law of the Sea", … - Keith Thomas
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is an historian, and most famously the author of "Religion and the decline of magic" and "Man and the natural world". - Eleanor Robson
Eleanor Robson is a lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, vice-chair of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford - Ian Brownlie
Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA, is a British jurist, specialising in international law. He was called to the Bar in 1958 (Gray's Inn). During his academic career he taught at the University of Leeds, Nottingham University, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1976 and 1980. - A. L. Rowse
Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH FBA (December 4, 1903 - October 3, 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific British historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his work on Elizabethan England. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer. He developed a widespread reputation for irascibility and intellectual arrogance. - John Redwood
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher . - Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is assistant editor of "Areté," an arts tri-quarterly. In 2003 he published his first novel, "Politics", and was included in Granta's list of the twenty best young British novelists. As an undergraduate (reading English) at New College, Oxford, he won several essay prizes and excelled in his final-year exams. - Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Howard was educated at Wellington College and Christ Church, Oxford (with service in World War II in between). - Hew Strachan
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. Commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a history of the First World War to replace C.R.M.F Cruttwell's one-volume "A History of the Great War, 1914-1918", Strachan completed the first of three volumes, … - Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow. - Noel Malcolm
Noel Robert Malcolm (born 26 December 1956) is an English writer, historian and journalist, known for his polymathy, and his polyglottism. Malcolm was educated at Eton College, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, has a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. - William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 - 14 February 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law called "Commentaries on the Laws of England", first published in four volumes over 1765-1769. It had an extraordinary success, reportedly bringing the author £14,000, and still remains an important source on classical views of the common law and its principles. - Stuart Hampshire
Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (October 1, 1914 - June 13, 2004) was an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought in the post-World War II era. Hampshire was educated at Repton School and at Balliol College, Oxford where he matriculated as a history scholar. - Robert Henry Brand 1st Baron Brand
Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand was a British civil servant, businessman, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His father Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden had been Governor of New South Wales, while his grandfather, the 1st Viscount, was speaker of the House of Commons. Brand graduated from New College, Oxford in 1901 and subsequently gained his fellowship at All Souls. From 1902, during the period of reconstruction following the Second Boer War, … - Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, … - Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book, "Reasons and Persons" (described by Alan Ryan in "The Sunday Times" as "something close to a work of genius") has been very influential in the field. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University, … - Charles Oman
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (January 12 1860 - June 23 1946) was a notable British military historian of the early 20th century. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. His style is an invigorating mixture of historical accuracy and emotional highlights, and it makes his narratives, though founded on deep research, often read as smoothly as fiction, … - T. E. Lawrence
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, but whose vivid personality and writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as "Lawrence of Arabia". - Leo Amery
Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery CH, PC (22 November 1873 – 16 September 1955), usually known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military preparedness, India and the British Empire. - Andrew Ashworth
Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is one of the UK's leading criminologists and has authored many prominent texts on the subject. Ashworth was born in 1947 in Rochdale. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in law and then went to Oxford to complete a BCL degree. He is married to his second wife Veronica, … - Peter Birks
Peter Birks (3 October 1941- 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution. Before taking up his Oxford post, he had held chairs at Edinburgh (1981-87) and, briefly, at Southampton. Prior to that, he was a tutorial fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford (1971-81), … - Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–82), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal - Matthew D'Ancona
Matthew d'Ancona (born 1968) is a British journalist. A former deputy editor of "The Sunday Telegraph", he was appointed editor of "The Spectator" in February 2006. D'Ancona's father came from Malta to Britain to study and ended up playing professional football for Newcastle before becoming a civil servant. His mother was an English teacher. He was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Magdalen College, Oxford, … - E. F. L. Wood 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881-23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. He is often regarded as one of the architects of appeasement prior to World War II. During the period he held several ministerial posts in the cabinet, … - George Clark
Sir George Norman Clark (February 27, 1890-February 6, 1979, knighted 1953) was a 20th century British historian. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he became the inaugural Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford in 1931 (with the accompanying Fellowship at All Souls), a post he held until 1943. From then until 1947 he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College, … - Colin Kidd
Professor Colin Craig Kidd MA, D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S, F.S.A.Scot, FRSE, is a historian specialising in American and Scottish history. He is the current Chair of Modern History and Deputy Head of Department, at the School of Historical Studies, University of Glasgow. Professor Kidd is holder of the prestigious British Petroleum Prize Lectureship in the Humanities and currently teaches in the department's division of Scottish History. - Paul Seabright
Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. Formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was lecturer and then Reader until 2001, he is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Seabright is also the Chairman of Bruegel's Scientific Council, Managing Editor of Economic Policy (since 2001) and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (since 1989). - Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett F.B.A., D. Litt, (born 1925) is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysics. He also devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and has written scholarly works on tarot. - Keith Hancock
Sir William Keith Hancock (26 June 1898-13 August 1988) was an Australian historian, born in Melbourne, Australia. The son of Archdeacon William Hancock, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and later the University of Melbourne. At the age of nine he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River, Victoria. Too young to see service in World War I without permission from his parents, … - John Dalberg-Acton 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO (10 January 10 1834 - 19 June 1902), commonly known as simply Lord Acton, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. He was born in Naples, Southern Italy. - Lionel Curtis
Lionel Curtis (1872-1955) British official and author who advocated British Empire Federalism and, late in life, a world state. His ideas concerning dyarchy were important in the development of the Government of India Act 1919 and more generally, his writings influenced the evolution of the Commonwealth of Nations. Curtis was educated at Haileybury College and then at University of Oxford subsequently becoming a lawyer. - Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (March 4, 1829 - February 24, 1902) was an English historian. The son of Rawson Boddam Gardiner, he was born near Alresford, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in "literae humaniores". He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892). For some years he was professor of modern history at King's College London, … - Alasdair Clayre
Alasdair George S. Clayre (9 October 1935 - 10 January 1984) was a British man of many talents: author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter, and academic. He was educated at Oxford University and was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Clayre took his own life in 1984 by jumping in front of a train. Clayre was born in Southampton on 9 October 1935. He won a scholarship to Winchester College, where he became head boy, and a further scholarship to Oxford University where, … - Geoffrey Dawson
George Geoffrey Dawson (October 25, 1874, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire - November 7, 1944, London) was editor of "The Times" from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1923 until 1941. His original last name was Robinson, but he changed it in 1917. - Richard Graves
Richard Graves (May 4, 1715 - November 23, 1804) was an English poet and novelist. Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, he was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and rector of Claverton, near Bath, and an enthusiastic collector of poems, a translator, essayist and correspondent. His best-known work is the picaresque novel "The Spiritual Quixote" (1773). - John Davis
John Horsley Russell Davis (1938-) is a British anthropologist, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford. John Davis was born in London on 9 September 1938. He was educated at University College, Oxford (BA Modern History 1961, MA) and the London School of Economics (PhD Social Anthropology 1968). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1988. - Robert Recorde
Robert Recorde (c. 1510 - 1558) was a Welsh physician and mathematician. He introduced the "equals" sign (=) in 1557. A member of a respectable family of Tenby, Wales, he entered the University of Oxford in about 1525, and was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1531. Having adopted medicine as a profession, he went to the University of Cambridge to take the degree of M.D. in 1545. He afterwards returned to Oxford, where he publicly taught mathematics, …
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